In another move by Joe Biden (or, more exactly, whoever is actually running our government at the moment) on his way out the door, an awful cease-fire has apparently been forced on Israel; one that looks far more like a triumph for hezbollah (thus hamas, thus, Iran) which gives Israel’s enemies time to rearm/regroup, than anything beneficial to the country they want to annihilate, along with all its Jewish citizens.
Excerpted from Park Macdougald’s unsettling article at thedailyscroll.substack.com:
According to Sunday reports in Kan, Haaretz, and Ynet News, Israel has agreed “in principle” to a U.S.-backed, 60-day cease-fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon. While the proposal has not been finalized, Israel has “okayed the main tenets” of the agreement, according to The Times of Israel, and has conveyed its approval to Lebanon. Israeli ministers are reportedly set to approve the truce tomorrow.
We’ll quote here from the summary of the three reports in TOI (emphasis ours):
Haaretz reported that the proposal will include three stages: a truce followed by Hezbollah removing its forces north of the Litani River; an Israeli pullout from southern Lebanon; and finally, Israeli-Lebanese negotiations on demarcation of contested border areas.
It said an international body led by the U.S. will be tasked with monitoring the ceasefire, and that Israel expects to receive a letter from Washington affirming its right to act militarily should Hezbollah break the terms of the ceasefire amid no action by Lebanon’s military and international forces.
And Kan, on Netanyahu’s plan to sell the deal to the public, said the aim is to present the truce not as a compromise but as beneficial to Israel.
In other words, primary responsibility for keeping Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon will fall to the U.S.-subsidized Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), which is a de facto auxiliary for Hezbollah for the obvious reason that the Hezbollah-run Lebanese government controls it. The other security guarantor (the “international forces”) will be the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, which is also a Hezbollah auxiliary. Since 2006, UNIFIL has completely ignored its mandate to ensure the “demilitarization” of southern Lebanon and has instead acted as…
(a) a front for laundering international funds to Hezbollah, since UNIFIL pays “Hezbollah operatives and supporters to act as contractors and provide other services,” as Tony Badran explained for Tablet earlier this month; and
(b) a human shield for Hezbollah, colocating its bases with the terror group’s infrastructure. This latter function, already public knowledge, has become undeniable since Israel’s recent invasion of southern Lebanon…
Does that look evenhanded to you? In any way beneficial to Isreel?
I ask you to remember two things:
-This idea of how to treat Israel is virtually certain to disappear once Donald Trump is in the Oval Office. That’s right, Donald Trump: the guy Democrats have spent months (years, actually) assuring you is the second coming of adolf hitler;
-If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz had been put in charge, the same attitude that has created this gross inequality/injustice/danger to Israel would be in power for the next four years.
Then think about the reports that Kamala Harris is considering either a run for Governor of California (which, given the condition of this once-great state, she might even win) or – could this possibly be true? – another run for the presidency in 2028 (uh….wouldn’t she have to actually win primaries to get that nomination, instead of having it handed to her on a silver platter?)
That’s enough to keep anyone who cares at all about Israel AND the United States up nights.
